The Time Tunnel was a show with big ambitions on a small budget. But the budget really wasn't a problem for me. Certainly not watching this as a kid with my parents, and still not watching it today. No, as long as the stories were interesting I don't care how it looks. But therein lies the problem. The quality of the scripts ranged from great to absolutely awful. Especially in the second half and towards the end Allen went nuts with Aliens, Magicians and fairy tales.
The better stories dealt with events and personalities of Earth past. Many people said they were far to casual dealing with the implications of their involvement in those historic events. Lets not forget we are in the mid to late 60s and those things were probably not high on the writers list. But you could also make the argument that their involvement is the reason why events unfolded like we know of them. Again, I don't think the writers were thinking about such things but it works both ways.
Well, for the most part the show is entertaining and fun. Unfortunately the bad episode are really bad and pull down the rating unnecessarily. My average rating based on the single episodes would come down to 6.1. I decided to give it a 7 nonetheless because the show is a classic and has cult status. And you could easily skip those awful episodes as there is litle to no fallout from that.
And I get a huge grin on my face knowing I grew up in a time where Tic-Toc was an imagined secret government project.
Review by FinFanBlockedParent2023-09-29T20:39:57Z
The Time Tunnel was a show with big ambitions on a small budget. But the budget really wasn't a problem for me. Certainly not watching this as a kid with my parents, and still not watching it today. No, as long as the stories were interesting I don't care how it looks. But therein lies the problem. The quality of the scripts ranged from great to absolutely awful. Especially in the second half and towards the end Allen went nuts with Aliens, Magicians and fairy tales.
The better stories dealt with events and personalities of Earth past. Many people said they were far to casual dealing with the implications of their involvement in those historic events. Lets not forget we are in the mid to late 60s and those things were probably not high on the writers list. But you could also make the argument that their involvement is the reason why events unfolded like we know of them. Again, I don't think the writers were thinking about such things but it works both ways.
Well, for the most part the show is entertaining and fun. Unfortunately the bad episode are really bad and pull down the rating unnecessarily. My average rating based on the single episodes would come down to 6.1. I decided to give it a 7 nonetheless because the show is a classic and has cult status. And you could easily skip those awful episodes as there is litle to no fallout from that.
And I get a huge grin on my face knowing I grew up in a time where Tic-Toc was an imagined secret government project.